Jack Belvedere

Hello. I am the owner of GOHA and would like to invite you to join the league as a player or fan. GOHA (Global Online Hockey Association) was formed in 2006 and continues to be an outstanding and fun sports community on the grid. We are preparing to enter our 16th season of simulated ice hockey. The game is professionally scripted and we developed an amazing automated statistics system, the first of its kind on the grid. Gameplay is easy, realistic and addictive fun. We have two divisions (North American and European) and will train you to play and be entered into the season draft this fall. There is NO cost to join or watch and all equipment and uniforms are provided free of charge. You can visit one of our fantastic rinks at the following URLS: Cleary Arena Brooks Arena Jericho Hill Arena The Chamonix City sims off the winter mainland have been totally remodeled! Please feel free to contact me with questions or for a personal tour and training. You can check out our website at: GOHA Website Jack Belvedere

Hello :) I am the owner of GOHA and would like to invite you to join the league as a player or fan. GOHA (Global Online Hockey Association) was formed in 2006 and continues to be an outstanding and fun sports community on the grid. We are preparing to enter our 15th season of simulated ice hockey. The game is professionally scripted and we developed an amazing automated statistics system, the first of its kind on the grid. Gameplay is easy, realistic and addictive fun. We have two divisions (North American and European) and will train you to play and be entered into the season draft this fall. There is NO cost to join or watch and all equipment and uniforms are provided free of charge. You can visit one of our stunning rinks at the following URLS: Cleary Arena Brooks Arena Jericho Hill Arena Please feel free to contact me with questions or for a personal tour and training. Jack Belvedere

I highly recommend this. I was lucky enough to be invited to the pre-opening night performance and it was one of the most amazing things I have seen in 7 years of SL. I took a lot of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/puckhead289/sets/72157628001038540/

I highly recommend this. I was lucky enough to be invited to the pre-opening night performance and it was one of the most amazing things I have seen in 7 years of SL. I took a lot of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/puckhead289/sets/72157628001038540/

GOHA Ice Hockey is preparing to enter its 13th season of providing entertaining, realistic team sports to the SL world. We have a large community of active players and participants which is open to all to join. Everything is free, including your equipment, games, or just coming to watch. We have participated in SL birthday celebrations, Winterfest, Showcase and many inworld activities. Some of our members did not know a thing about hockey or even think they liked it before joining, so don't let that stop you! We invite anyone of all skill levels and the community is very welcoming. We have players who deal with real life handicaps who are thrilled to be able to participate virtually in this competitive sport and the game script is simple to master. You can be a player, captain, fan, cheerleader, help participate in event planning, and more. GOHA provides a stable social community for SL members new and old. The game itself is professionally scripted, and we play on 3 beautiful rinks spread across 8 sims. You can check them out by contacting me for landmarks or just search for GOHA in Places inworld. All equipment is available by the rinks' player entrances. For rookies, we have an excellent Rookie Training division run by Katia Ixtab. Participate in a few rookie games, learn the basics, and you're ready to be drafted onto one of our 12 teams. We offer both North American and European Divisions. GOHA has a strong code of conduct as we expect participants to conduct themselves in an adult manner to provide a fun and drama-free environment for our league members. Rules, Mission and Conduct information is available on our website, along with a season schedule, player forums, league history and more. Our league also has detailed and professional automated statistics. http://www.globalonlinehockeyassociation.com We also offer Ski Jumping now at Chamonix City! Check out the Breakaway sim and try out the ski jump. Creator Marjan Tomba is organizing events and competitions. You can also join the Chamonix Ski Jump group inworld. Coming soon, you can also try out bobsledding! GOHA is involved with a project with other sports groups inside Second Life with a goal of promoting sports throughout the SL world. If you participate in another sport and want to join a supportive group of sports managers across the grid, please let me know and I can direct you where to go. Hope to see you inworld! Don't hesitate to contact me with questions. 

GOHA Ice Hockey is preparing to enter its 13th season of providing entertaining, realistic team sports to the SL world. We have a large community of active players and participants which is open to all to join. Everything is free, including your equipment, games, or just coming to watch. We have participated in SL birthday celebrations, Winterfest, Showcase and many inworld activities. Some of our members did not know a thing about hockey or even think they liked it before joining, so don't let that stop you! We invite anyone of all skill levels and the community is very welcoming. We have players who deal with real life handicaps who are thrilled to be able to participate virtually in this competitive sport and the game script is simple to master. You can be a player, captain, fan, cheerleader, help participate in event planning, and more. GOHA provides a stable social community for SL members new and old. The game itself is professionally scripted, and we play on 3 beautiful rinks spread across 8 sims. You can check them out by contacting me for landmarks or just search for GOHA in Places inworld. All equipment is available by the rinks' player entrances. For rookies, we have an excellent Rookie Training division run by Katia Ixtab. Participate in a few rookie games, learn the basics, and you're ready to be drafted onto one of our 12 teams. We offer both North American and European Divisions. GOHA has a strong code of conduct as we expect participants to conduct themselves in an adult manner to provide a fun and drama-free environment for our league members. Rules, Mission and Conduct information is available on our website, along with a season schedule, player forums, league history and more. Our league also has detailed and professional automated statistics. http://www.globalonlinehockeyassociation.com We also offer Ski Jumping now at Chamonix City! Check out the Breakaway sim and try out the ski jump. Creator Marjan Tomba is organizing events and competitions. You can also join the Chamonix Ski Jump group inworld. Coming soon, you can also try out bobsledding! GOHA is involved with a project with other sports groups inside Second Life with a goal of promoting sports throughout the SL world. If you participate in another sport and want to join a supportive group of sports managers across the grid, please let me know and I can direct you where to go. Hope to see you inworld! Don't hesitate to contact me with questions. 

Mine is intermittent. I was able to get into SL using V2 yesterday, but today again it is stuck at "Loading World" and never rolls over. So I can get in only with 1.23. Weird.

No luck for me yet, even with a reinstall. I also get this when trying to install. On a second attempt, I did not get those messages, but it still gets stuck at "Loading World" and will not go any further.

Hiya Claw! I'm having same issue. It gets stuck at "Loading World" and won't go any further. Also had a lot of weird installation issues, popup boxes. No resolution yet but I'll post if I find out anything.

Nice!! Good luck and have fun, Gladiola, glad to see this option being started. I will mention it around to other sports groups I know, too.

Global Online Hockey Association (GOHA) is getting ready to start its 13th season of exciting inworld ice hockey. GOHA was established in 2006 and continues to offer the virtual world exciting, realistic ice hockey, professionally scripted and a joy to play.  The GOHA community is a large, established and friendly place that happily welcomes new members. The fall season will start soon. Everyone is welcome to join, and we'll help you through the rookie process with 1-on-1 training. It's quite simple to learn. It doesn't matter if you've never played or watched hockey--we'll help you through it. As a GOHA member, you'll enjoy instant entertainment and a big circle of new friends who get together not just for hockey but other social activities as well. We hold games every day and have two competitive seasons a year, along with a laid-back Summer Season. Team captains are chosen by their peers. At the end of every season, we have a large Awards Night for which peer-voted trophies are awarded to players. The league offers active North American and European divisions, so whatever time zone you live in, you are sure to find some new friends. --EVERYTHING IS FREE --FREE TO PLAY AND JOIN --FREE TO WATCH --FREE UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT You can find our 3 beautiful rinks and free equipment at the following sims inworld: Empty Net, Jericho Hill, Blueliner. If you are looking for an active community that offers many social activities in and around the sporting world, look no further. Contact Jack Belvedere, Katia Ixtab, Kerry Gretzky, or Marjan Tomba for a tour of the 8 sims where GOHA lives and plays together, or any league/group member for further information.

I'll get in touch with you guys inworld later and see if we can get something brewing.

Anyone interested in doing an organized Sports Fair over the summer? I can provide a sim and host, advertise and help staff it. What I was thinking was: Booths, free info and sports-related freebies, live music, fair-type setting, special guests and demonstrations. I can start a group for it. Hit me up inworld if you might be interested to join in, it would be cool to get as many sports groups as possible involved.

It looks great, nice work!

Hey Redlag!! Nice, thanks for posting the event, but just now saw it--will it continue this week also?

RacerX ROCKS!! Go snail racing!!

Some residents do not realize that there is a large and varied sports community inside Second Life. Sports in SL provides a great opportunity for friendly competition and big social settings with a wide variety of activities. Some of the options include football, soccer, hockey, snail racing, car racing, wrestling, simboarding, golf, fishing, and skiing. There is a lot of pleasure in being able to participate in the sports world in SL--active games we have created ourselves and the wide opportunities to meet people around the world. In order to help promote sports in SL, some of the sports managers have joined together to help cross-promote and increase the visibility overall of sports in SL. Terrell Merryman from the SFL founded the Virtual Sports Bureau (group) to help keep contact with each other with a wider goal of expanding sports in the virtual world. If you are the owner of a virtual sports group and would like to talk with other owners and work on ways we can help sports in SL reach its potential, as well as being a great source of support for each other, please feel free to contact me, Terrell Merryman, Alistar Snook, Calvinizm2g Quan, or RobsterRawb Jaxxon and we can give you more info.

Stanley Cup finals are coming up in real life, so interest in hockey is high. Did you know you can join a team and play ice hockey in Second Life, though? Yes, it's true, there IS hockey in Second Life! I am the league commissioner for GOHA (Global Online Hockey Association), founded in early 2006.The game is professionally and realistically scripted, and a blast to play or watch. We have 3 beautiful rinks, 12 teams, two active divisions, and offer rookie training for those of you new to the ice. The community is large, active and friendly, and whether or not you like to watch or play, you are welcome to join. It's a great way to meet people and develop friendships in Second Life. You can become involved in playing, captaining, cheerleading, volunteering, and participating in the varied social events. Our original rink is located at Jericho Hill. Then at Blueliner there is a lovely outdoor rink, and a large indoor rink at Empty Net. We also offer a fantastic ski jump at Chamonix City, cross country skiing, snowboarding, ice skating and further winter sports are being developed, including bobsledding. It is completely free to join and play. All equipment is free. If you have questions I welcome you to contact me and I can give you a personal tour of the rinks and help you get started. Come Visit GOHA!

Thank you for providing Numbakulla for the past years, for our entertainment. I'm sorry to hear it's leaving.

GOHA's six regions used to mean I had a winter spot for 3 months. That's now gone. Hello Holocluck It's definitely not gone! In fact, based on some great suggestions during the week, we are starting a project to add more fun stuff. One great addition is already underway. The maze will be coming back out where the ski jump is now, with the ski jump moving to Breakaway (the sim to the west) so it can hold more people. We're going to continue many regular activities, and hope you can stop by again. Thanks again to everyone who attended, the fantastic Winterfest planning crew, GOHA, and Linden Lab for all the fun!

Hey Morphy I had a lot of comments on the maze and it was quite popular, so my intention is to find a permanent place for it out there. The area behind the rink wasn't ideal for long term. We're doing some remodeling of the areas based on feature requests and suggestions. For instance, the ski jump is extremely popular, and we're going to move it to an area that can accommodate more people (the sim it's currently on, Offsides, is a homestead connecting to the mainland). There's some other fantastic suggestions we're looking into seriously and expect to add in the near future.

Winterfest is wrapping up tonight. Thanks to all who attended and helped celebrate the season! The best part was meeting so many SL residents. I don't always get out much and forget sometimes how many great folks there are around. I'm glad to have had the chance to meet so many of you and hope you all enjoyed it. I want to publicly thank some folks who helped make this a fantastic time. Winterfest organizers Katia Ixtab, Ashlene McMinnar, Marjan Tomba, Dyz Warburton, Kalita Magic, Tangle Giano, Lobo Rodriquez, Janieke Blanchard, and Anhayla Lycia for helping organize the many activities such as the Ski Jump, Scavenger/Puck Hunt, Snowman Building Contest, musical acts, scheduling, new player training, and building at the sims. A big thanks also goes out to Linden Lab and particularly Blondin, Courtney and Delby Linden for this opportunity. We had a blast. Special thanks also to Michael and Torley Linden who assisted with some sim troubles. The Linden/Resident Snowball Fight was a highlight of the week and I thank all who attended, I did not even catch all the names. We had an incredible lineup of fantastic live musicians. Thank you for adding so much to the experience: Mankind Tracer, Noma Falta, Guitar Zane, Andreus Gustafson, The Follow, Reggie Sunset, Jimmyt49 Dukes, CCTV Giant, Tamra Sands, XanderNichting Writer, Skye Galaxy, Jean Munro, Keiko Takamura, Phemie Alcott, CraigLyons Writer, TwinGhost Ronas, Louis Volare, Dann Numbers, Lance Rembrandt, Buckley Moonwall, Maximillion Kleene (original GOHArian!), David Csiszer, Mimi Carpenter, and Edward Kyomoon. Thanks to Marjan Tomba for the popular new ski jump, and Lancelot Skytower for the fantastic balloon tours across the sims. Live DJ Bonfire parties were a great relaxing end to several evenings and I want to thank Ashlene McMinnar and Merrik Caproni, and DJ Mac Ronas from The Underground (my favorite club in SL!) for providing these. The Puckettes cheerleaders and manager Kayden Piers for fantastic performances and for coming out to cheer on the teams during the Open Hockey games. Lobo Rodriquez for organizing a fantastic All-Star's Hockey Game, Merrik Caproni for making uniforms, and TreetTV for yet another professional filming job. Thanks to all the sports managers who came to the Meet-and-Greet to help promote sports inside SL. Hope you will all keep in touch! Most of all, for all GOHA members, thanks for all the time you spent helping to greet and help visitors, assisting me with various projects, and participating in all the events. You guys agreeably put off playoffs for this event, came and helped, and once again showed that great team spirit. The Chamonix area will retain current activities and add even more to the winter activities. We had great suggestions of additions we could make from residents and appreciate that. Hope to see you again in the community!

The snowball fight today was so packed that we all briefly killed a sim! So, we've adjusted the plans to actually hold it on 3 sims. For tomorrow's snowball fight at 8AM please try the following SLurls. Try using the map as well, because there were numerous scattered fights going on all over. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Empty%20Net/153/137/63 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cross%20Check/197/158/60 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Breakaway/89/114/22 Thanks and hope to see you there!

The traditional snowball fights will happen (yay!) and are planned for the following dates and times, but subject to change. The final schedule should be coming out soon. Lindens vs Residents Snowball Fights THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH-- 4:00 PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17TH-- 8:00 AM